Snow of Tomorrow | The Good Side

Quiet quitting on the news portals

When we open a news app today, open the newspaper or possibly switch on the TV, the word "crisis" is emblazoned across everything. That can be disheartening. Pull it down. To the point where you don't even want to look at the news anymore. To the point where you might not only be "quiet quitting" at work, but also on news portals. According to the Federal Agency for Civic Education, a crisis is a massive disruption of the social, political or economic system that lasts for a certain (longer) period of time. At the same time, crises also hold the opportunity for (actively sought qualitative) improvement & quot; and it is precisely this opportunity for improvement that I want to focus on.

We can watch the live ticker for crisis 1, 2 or 3 every day, have push notifications sent to us and then fall discouraged into the sofa. Or we can look for opportunities. Opportunities for further development. Opportunities to improve. Opportunities to survive these crises and emerge stronger from them. Crises are never nice or pleasant. They are existential.

How far can skiing go

What is all this doing here on PowderGuide? In a ski magazine? Since 2019, in Snow of Tomorrow, we have been focusing on climate change and how we can tackle it as winter sports enthusiasts. Starting with our clothing, how we travel to the mountains, the areas we support by buying tickets, our diet, how we deal with climate protests and how we want to see the mountains and snow in the future and how others see it. We have embarked on a journey over the last three years. I have also embarked on a journey as an author. We have worked on ourselves, challenged ourselves and thought about our future. We have sometimes gone where it hurt (should we tear down lifts?), but also where it was comfortable (shopping for second-hand Christmas presents). I often had the feeling that we were always looking at what we, the world, had already achieved with a disgruntled expression. It was never enough and - no question - it isn't! Snow of Tomorrow has also become a place that painfully reminds us that we may not be able to ski the way we love to anymore. We have sometimes forgotten that Snow of Tomorrow exists above all because we don't want to give up yet. Because we believe that things can be different.

We are still a ski magazine. We sit here and write because we believe that there are people who simply want to read articles about skiing. They want to know where powder is falling at the weekend, what skis are available this year and what tour recommendations the editorial team has. We know about all the crises out there, we know that electricity is getting more expensive, but we still have this incredible and almost indescribable need to put our feet into boots that are actually far too tight and glide down snow-covered slopes on long poles. Simply because it feels good. Because we feel free when the powder takes our breath away. And also because we finally forget all the other shit that's going on.